Performance Monitoring – Energy

Safety, efficiency and availability are the primary concerns in the energy sector. Accordingly, we focus on different energy technologies within this field.

Pump storage power plants

Large pump storage hydroelectric plants, usually at high altitudes, store surplus energy by pumping water (potential energy) from a catchment basin into a barrier lake over 1,000 m (approx. 3,000 ft) higher. To generate power, water is discharged through turbines into the basin below. For the operator, it is important to keep the time for switching from pumping to generating electricity as short as possible. This process is monitored using hundreds of measuring points, and results are recorded and stored in a database.

Solar power plants

Solar power plants should operate as efficiently as possible. To ensure this, we offer complete monitoring solutions from simple PV string monitoring through complete monitoring of a solar plant, including individual web-based portal solutions. This enables operators and investors to determine the output of their solar power plant, and identify potential for improvement through intelligent algorithms.

Dam monitoring

During dam construction, cement needed to be injected at high pressure into the rock under the dam foundations to achieve the prespecified stability. In addition, the contractors had to guarantee that the injection pressure would not unseat or lift the dam. For this reason the injectors pumps need to be controlled at each barrier block.